The Slippery Slope Remains the Undefeated Champion

The Slippery Slope Remains the Undefeated Champion

The lessons of history

Are forgotten

Are ignored

Are deemed irrelevant

And thus,

Are required to be relearned (again and again)

The payments for this tuition

Are paid in the blood of millions

Too busy to care, too apathetic to know to care

President Washington warned of the dangers of foreign entanglements

President Eisenhower told of the military industrial complex

Martin Niemöller spoke of no one being left to speak out for me

And still, the ignorant remain blissfully ignorant

Hitler killed millions, Stalin more than Hitler, Mao more than Stalin

Socialism and Communism (vote your way in, shoot your way out)

Killed more than all three combined in the 20th Century alone

George Santayana forewarned of the consequences of failure

But, TikTok is more fun

You may wonder which message was lost, but I don’t wonder as to why

Rules for Radicals and Mein Kampf are blueprints

1984 is fiction

The difference becomes moot when everyone is literate, but no one wants to prove it

Once the door becomes the slightest of ajar to the narrative and not the truth

Appeasing the shouters, the leeches, and the looters

Once men actively seek a benevolent master over personal freedom

Then the slippery slope becomes more than a placation

It becomes a daily expectation

It becomes easy to do nothing else

And such is how slaves have always been made